restraining

The act by which someone or something is restrained.

Noun

  1. The act by which someone or something is restrained.
    • She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; […] - 1895, George...

Forms

restrainings

Related

nonrestraining restrainingly restraining order

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of restrain